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(No Model.)

LOSOH & L. B. HARNERQ 1 STEAM WHISTLE.

Patented June 14, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

WILLIAM G. LOSOH AND LAVENDER B.- HARNER, OF POTTSVILLE, PENN- SYLVANIA,ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO SAMUEL A. LOSCH, OF SAME PLACE.

STEAM-WHISTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,830, dated June 14,1887.

Application filed February 25, 1887. Serial No. 22?,926. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM G. LOSOH and LAVENDER B. HARNER, citizensof the United States, residing at Pottsville, in the county ofSchuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Im provements in Steam-Whistles, of which the following is aclear, full, and exact description,

reference being had to the accompanying draw- 1 ings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of asteam-whistle with our improvements attached. Fig.2 is a verticalsection through the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal section onthe line X X of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar section on the line Y Y ofFig. 1.

Our present invention relates to steam-whistles for locomotives andother similar uses;

and it consists in the combination of the devices,hcrei nafter explainedand claimed, whereby several simultaneous distinct sounds are produced,either in accord or discord, as may cut a small portion at a, as shownin Fig. 3, for the escape of steam from the cup 0. As many of theseopenings are made as it is de sired to have separate sounds. If it bedesired to have the diiferentsounds to accord, the

openings should be made exactly of the same size; but if otherwise, thesize of the openings should be varied. Above and immediately opposite toeach of the openings a a notch, b, is

cut in the barrel for the escape of the steam to the open air. Thesenotches are made to correspond in width to the opening a in the plug 13.In the bottom of the cup 0 is another plug,

0, having openings 0, corresponding with the openings at in number, andplaced in the same vertical line, to admit the steam to the cup, whenceit passes through the openings at to the notches b in the barrel. ted tothe notches c, in the usual manner, by

means of the lever D, adapted to push back the "alve-stem d against thespring d, which sits in a cap on the valve, thus openingthe valve andallowing the escape of the steam, as in the ordinary steam-whistles.

The steam is admit- I Having thus explained our invention, what we claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An improved steam-whistle comprising the cup 0, having an aperturedplug, 0, in combination with a barrel engaging said cup having anapertured plug in its base and a series of openings formedin its sidesabove and at right angles with the opening in said plug, all constructedand arranged to operate as herein de- I scribed.

WILLIAM G. LOSGH.

LAVENDER B. HARNER.

\Vitnesses: I

B. BRYsoNMoCooL, WM. '1. HAMILTON.

